combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose …

found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data …While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has … about 25 percent. This finding is robust to controls for workers' AFQT scores and detailed indicators of Internet access …

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show that while assassinations and strikes (what we call informal …

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …

-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to have access to or use a computer and the Internet. Moreover, the gap in IT usage …

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags … across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time scales from the micro to the macro level. The paper uses internet …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …